Halting Problem

Are you an XML superstar?

I… I really don’t understand.

I usually sleep right through earthquakes, but this morning at about 0440 (when, yes, I had actually been asleep for quite a number of hours) I woke up thinking “earthquake!”, and felt some shaking. Since it only lasted about a second after I woke up, I wasn’t entirely sure I didn’t just dream it. But, a quick trip to my friendly neighborhood earthquake website confirmed that there had been a cute little 4.1 up by Palomar at 0435. The map of reports for the event shows 30 reports from my zip code, so that’s probably what I felt.

People of the Intertubes! Now you know, thanks to the wonderful technology of the blags, why I was awake from 0430 to 0730 this morning!

Video of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. Awesome.

The band SO3 has released a preview of their song “Streets”. You can check it out here.

A professor in my Computer Science department is in the band, and I saw them play at UCSD about a year ago. They played an earlier version of Streets there, and I loved it. I’ve been waiting for them to release a studio version since then…

On Nov 15. Nationwide. In San Diego: http://protest8sandiego.wordpress.com/

Sooooo… why, exactly, did all my xorg configs move into some XML hal config file?

*sigh*

Pandora + last.fm mashup. Just ran across it and it’s working fine for me. I think it’s awesome.

For my own good later on when I’m searching for it: To remove backspaces and other control characters from a typescript generated by script(1), use col -b. Not those wacky sed and perl scripts everyone’s passing around on the internet…

There. I know I’ve looked that up at least 3 separate times, and every time it’s taken me >5 minutes to figure out what app to use. col(1) should really be in script(1)’s “See Also” section, IMO.

Things I’ve done while putting off a programming project:

• converted my mail setup from mbox to maildir
• cleaned up my mutt config files
• read a long lkml thread about the merits and demerits of atime, and decided to mount my root filesystem noatime.
• tested the plug-and-play-ability of a microphone I have lying around (it worked)

Hmmmmmm…

Apocalyptica is playing this Friday…

…at Nokia Theatre in New York.

Oh well.